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Railroad productivity.

Title
Railroad productivity.
Author
National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : Transportation Research Board, 1985.

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Additional Authors
  • Kassabian, Naomi.
  • National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Committee on Freight Transportation Planning and Marketing.
  • National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Committee on Intermodal Freight Transport.
  • National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Committee on Track Structure System Design.
  • National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Committee on Rail Electrification Systems.
  • National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Committee on Intermodal Freight Terminal Design.
  • National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Committee on Rail Freight Classification Terminal Design.
  • National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Committee on Railroad Operations Management.
  • National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Committee on Railway Maintenance.
  • TRB Committee on Surface Freight Transport Regulation.
Description
vii, 74 p. : ill.; 28 cm.
Series Statement
Transportation research record ; 1029
Uniform Title
Transportation research record ; 1029.
Subject
  • Railroads > Capital productivity > United States > Congresses
  • Railroad tracks > Congresses
  • Railroad tracks
  • Railroads > Capital productivity
  • United States
Genre/Form
Conference papers and proceedings.
Note
  • Papers presented at a conference sponsored by the Transportation Research Board and held at the University of Illinois in May 1985.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Foreword / George D. Hay -- Toward practicality in defining and measuring railroad productivity / Harvey A. Levine -- Impacts of regulatory policy on rail productivity / Robert G. Rhodes -- The effects of railroad mergers on industry productivity and performance / Curtis M. Grimm, Robert G. Harris -- Interface between passenger and freight operations / Donald O. Eisele -- Railway electrification and railway productivity : a study report / S.R. Ditmeyer (and 6 others) -- Principles of unit-train productivity / A.T. Lewis -- Optimal use of classification yards / James A. Wetzel -- Burlington Northern Railroad's view of intermodal hub centers and their impact on productivity and customer service / William E. Greenwood -- New concepts in the control of train movement / Peter J. Detmold -- Track lubrication : its application and potential for reducing fuel consumption / Roy A. Allen, Richard P. Reiff -- Research and development and productivity : high-productivity integral trains / Scott B. Harvey -- Track maintenance cost analysis : an engineering economics approach / Michael B. Hargrove -- Track maintenance policy and planning / H.G. Webb.
ISBN
  • 0309039207
  • 9780309039208
LCCN
85029748
OCLC
  • ocm12977839
  • 12977839
  • SCSB-9125120
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library